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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of the things I think this book does best is explore the waves and complexity of grief. Tessa Yang allows the magical elements of this book to shape the crevices of the her griefs and slowly push her towards community. Out from @berkleypub.bsky.social

The cover of The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang, which has a diver swimming towards pink jellyfish tentacles

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“I hover in the indexes, the footnotes” (from the poem “Theory”). A collection that asks reader to sit in the metacognition of why we exist & the stories we tell. 206 release from @tinhouse.bsky.social #booksky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816553...

Cover of The Near and Distant World by Bianca Stone. A mountain range is at the center with a shadowy figure walking alongside the peak. Illustrated fire tops the mountain

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Author @toniannj.bsky.social writes from oral history traditions, from personal experience. She explores social mobility for Black families, power dynamics within relationships, the yearning to self-define. www.kentuckypress.com/978196716503...

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But Where's Home? - The University Press of Kentucky

It's 1963 in the small town of Monroe, New York. The Arringtons, a Black family, buy a house in a picturesque, all-white neighborhood. Some residents are wel...

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Only a few days left to pre-order But Where’s Home: A Novella and Stories by Toni Ann Johnson. It’s deeply affecting with family trauma, agency and the complexity of healing. @kentuckypress.bsky.social #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth

The cover of But Where’s Home by Toni Ann Johnson, which has a painting of a black woman’s head and hands.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There’s a little here for everyone: spiritual practice and meditation, literary analysis, reflection for healing, and re-tooled lessons in political engagement. New from North Atlantic Books. #booksky #newbooks

The book The Fire Inside: the Dahrma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde held in front of a bus with tiny purple flowers. The book cover is free with photos of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin in front of a lotus flower.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I was enchanted and grieving and wondering. I was lost and planted again. Grateful for this work and the challenge of it. Out from Soft Skull press. #poetry #booksky

A copy of The World After the Rain by Canisia Lubrin. The cover is several shades of blue, with a rain pattern.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Winding, sometimes stream of consciousness type poetry. Phrases bump along uneven roads, sputter like a weary engine. Fagin’s poems ask you to trust the process, and know that we are shortcutting our way to an important place. Then, a revelation so bright you have to squint appears. #booksky

Cover of Self Driving by Betty Fagin. A white, oblong spiral is pictured, on top on a background of layered abstract colors.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Absolutely in love in with new collection, out tomorrow from @tinhouse.bsky.social . Hardly Creatures is a collection that focuses on disability, community, and so much more. The book is modeled to read like a walk through an accessible museum.

The book Hardly Creatures by Rob Colgate is picked in front of a bush of white and pink flowers. The cover has a broken statue of a face, with a red salamander crawling across it.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A stunning book of poetry steeped in Black culture references. #Booksky #Blackbooksky

a hand holds up a copy of What Had Happened Was by Theri Pickens against a plant with dark pink flowers. The cover is various shades of pink, with a brown, ink-blot like repeating pattern of women whispering to each other.

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Know a women who writes horror? Repost this! Currently open for submissions!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Support small presses, especially ones that publish short fiction! Check out my friend’s novella, Marisolandia from @wtawpress.bsky.social !

The book Marisolandia is held in front of a cactus. The book cover has a barren landscape and blue sky, with a stone statue in the bottom right corner

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

‘90s kid bookish nostalgia in the local thrift. #booksky #90s #animorphs

A series of Animorphs books on a wooden shelf

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In the poem “On Belonging,” Patrycja Humienik asks, “where do we go to find the myths that made us?” A beautiful #poetry collection releasing this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social

a hand holds up a book in front of a large cactus. The book, We Contain Landscapes, has black title text and a blue, white and purple swirling design on the cover.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Looking for cozy game recommendations for Nintendo switch. Loved Spritifarer and Wylde Flowers. Didn’t quite get into Cozy Grove. #cozygames

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This memoir is full of grief, but also with hope. Using an innovate structure, Nguyen tells the dual stories of how her experience of sexual assault led her into activism and the healing of her childhood trauma. #SavingFive #AmandaNguyen #Booksky #memoir

The book Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen is propped up against a large black telescope. The book cover has a portrait of the author, a Vietnamese woman with long black hair wearing a pink sweater. There is a shadow effect behind her and stars overlaid on her hair.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Fundamentally is a book that surprised me. At first, I had a hard time sitting alongside the narrator, Nadia, whose brash and often offensive humor seemed like a defense mechanism that the reader didn’t have insight to. As I got more used to her & her naivety, layers of character were revealed.

The book Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis is pictured on a blue footstool. The book has a blue background and white title text with three spliced images of a pink feminine face. The bottom image of the face is blowing a bubble with gum.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This book is holds you in its heartache and examines how folks move through/in/around grief. Grief of losing family members, of having few options, even the grief of surviving. #booksky

the book Waiting for A Long Night Moon. The cover is purple with stars in the background and two overlapping images of the moon, one orange and one purple at the center.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Oh dang. That’s such a bummer!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Just finished it and loved it.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

These are so cute and fit you perfectly!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Needing some easing of mind, some breathing? See Kaira Jewel Lingo’s We Were Made For These Times.

A photo of the book We Were Made For These Times. The cover is black with white title text and has rainbow comets or asteroids across the cover.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#ReadBlackPoetry forthcoming from Tiana Clark is a stunning collection, Scorched Earth! Clark lets us sit in the body as she faces pain while also being determined to celebrate aliveness. Out March 4th! #Booksky #BlackBooksky

In the background, a black and white image shows a barren landscape. In the bottom right corner is a woman with curly hair looking up to the right. A faded thought bubble begins from her head into the sky above her. Inside the thought bubble is the cover of Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark, which has pink title text and an art piece by Kara Walker that features a desolate landscape, people on horseback and floating images of a head and hands

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Reading 3 books and beginning a book proposal draft!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I think all of these writers use concise, direct language and also have lots of video/interview resources online 😀

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Anything by Nikki Giovanni or Lucille Clifton. Citizen Illegal by Jose Olivarez. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. Electric Arches by Eve Ewing.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Oh this is an interesting approach to ARCs!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Also any Jesmyn Ward! Long Division by Kiese Laymon.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It’s a big one! But I think comparable to Ours in its lyrical nature.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honoree Jeffers.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I think mine is Beloved by Toni Morrison or Caucasia by Danny Senna.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What’s your response to this question from #RandomHouse?

This is a graphic from random house. The background is green with tan text that reads “1. The book that sets you on the path to a life built by and around reading. 2. The book you can’t ever recover from, that you never stop thinking about, and that makes you desperate to reach that frightening depth of experience with other books.” At the bottom of the graphic is the book Bibliophobia by Sarah Chiyara, which has a green cover and overlapping text of the title at the top.

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Edge of Water was wonderful! Excited for Original Sins and Junie!

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Reading I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like by Rebecca Carroll, from Haymarket 💙💙

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Love this! I just posted “where’s the poetry” and this came in the feed! 💛

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jamie m. @mixedreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Here’s a new collection for you, out from @tinhouse.bsky.social , who publish some of my favorite collections. This collection is for the heady, the heartbroken, the mythologists. There were moments in this collection I held my breath, stunned at connections I didn’t see coming.

A photo of the cover of Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen. The cover is a deep blue with shelves of abstract circular and pointy shapes.

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